Well, okay. But the monopoly would have also kept costs down. Yes - all iPhones would have looked identical, but everyone would have had one! Another plus -

Well, okay. But the monopoly would have also kept costs down. Yes - all iPhones would have looked identical, but everyone would have had one! Another plus - the software stack would have been far smaller. You wouldn't need a 32 Gig phone just to install some apps. All processing would have been done in the cloud, on the mainframe. The apps would all have been dumb and only screen viewers for the mainframe. :)